[Alle de werken, so ouden als nieuwen [...]. Op nieus vermeerdert met des autheurs Tachtigh-jarigh leven, Huyshoudinge en Bedenckingen op Zorgh-vliet.].

15 parts in 1 vol., folio: [22]-164, [20]-30, [4]-15-[5], 195-[7], [2]-52, [8]-180, [16]-192-[12]-193/265-[7], [10]-74, 6-81/104, 34, [2]-8-[6]-40, 108, [8]-64, 12 pp. (general typogr. title missing, some sm. tears underlaid, some minor soiling).

Contemp. blind-stamped vellum (sl. soiled), rather clumsily rebacked with mod. imitation leather spine.

2nd enl. ed. (1st 1655) of the collected works of the Dutch statesman and poet Jacob Cats (1577-1660). Engr. ill.: front. with author's portrait, part titles or titles with ill. after A. Van de Venne, 2 other front. ("Aspasia" and "Buytenleven op Zorgvliet"), 2 full-page pl. (i.a. with a portrait of Cats), 3 double-page pl. ("Afbeeldinghe des huwelyk onder de gedaente van een fuyk", "Dodelycke uytgang van syn hoogheyt Fred. Henrik Prince van Oranje etc. Anno 1647" and "Sic transit gloria mundi"), and some 400 ill. or emblems (some with author's portraits). Contains i.a. "Proteus ofte Minne-beelden verandert in sinne-beelden" (1658), "Emblemata moralia et oeconomica", "Self-stryt, Dat is onderlinge worstelinge van goede en quade gedachten" (1657), "Houwelyck" (1657), etc.
Ref. Cats Catalogus (STCN) 2. - Museum Catsianum 2, 3. - Emblem books Leiden 138. - BL.